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You know the old stereotype about Asians just being smarter than everybody else? Yeah, well apparently so does Harvey Weinstein. The Weinstein Company currently hold the international distribution rights to the post-apocalyptic sci-fi epic, Snowpiercer, acclaimed Korean director Bong Joon-Ho’s English language debut, which released in South Korea last Wednesday. The film’s first reviews are already out with many calling it a …
There’s reason I’ve been beating the Snowpiercer drum ever since I first heard about it. Korean director Bong Joon-Ho’s The Host (not the Stephanie Meyer one, the good one) is one of my favourite films of the last decade, and having the filmmaker dabble in a mixture of sci-fi and social commentary again gets me all bubbly in my underpants. And now it …
We’ve seen certainly seen our fair share of dystopian futures before, but I think that Snowpiercer – acclaimed Korean director, Bong Joon-Ho’s English language debut – has to be a first: A post-apocalyptic future based on what it’s like to use the Metrorail train services in South Africa. They’ve got cold weather, everybody’s dirty, a lot of shady looking characters and …
While I thought the first two salvos in the South Korean invasion of Hollywood (Kim Jee-Woon’s The Last Stand and Park Chan-Wook’s Stoker) were both pretty good films in their own right, it’s the third wave of attack that I’ve been waiting for the most. And now, after being exposed to a bombardment of passport photos, character posters and Tilda Swinton’s bad …
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but it’s a good time to be a geek. The next couple of years are stuffed so full of sci-fi movie goodness that it may even convince the most diehard geeks to venture out of their Fortress of Solid-Nerd to catch a movie or two at their local cinema. And one such sci-fi lure …
Unlike their most famous Northern neighbour, the trio of big name South Korean directors making their English language debuts this year – Park Chan-Wook, Jee Woo-Kim and Bong Joon-Ho – all look like they’re actually going to blow up. In a good way, of course. And as a massive sci-fi geek and a huge fan of his 2006 monster movie …
The Korean invasion of Hollywood is in full swing, with Park Chan-Wook’s opening shot, Stoker, already racking up the accolades. The second salvo, Kim Ji-Woon’s The Last Stand, may have misfired a bit (and by a bit I mean a lot!) at the box office but it was still a reasonably fun film. The third prong of this attack though, The Host director Bong …
Have you ever double-checked your doors at night because something just didn’t feel secure? …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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